Comment #3 on issue 1732 by [email protected]: CTRL-space bad choice for
keyboard shortcut
http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=1732
True: But only if I know ibus is intercepting the CTRL-space.
And that is the issue: How will I know that ibus does that and that it is
not some other system that is eating my CTRL-space?
I honestly started out by thinking it was Konsole that had the problem,
until I discovered the problem also existed in Chromium. Then I figured
those were probably not to blame, but the problem was elsewhere. Then I
did 'xev' to see if X got the keypresses, and it did. Then I was thinking
maybe someone changed the Danish keymap to not include CTRL-space, and only
then did I discover ibus. As soon as I saw the preferences for ibus it was
obvious what happened, but I spent at least 1 hour getting to that stage.
What would you do, if e.g. the 'a' key stopped working after a full upgrade
of your system? Would you immediately know where to fix it? Even if you do
not know what packages the upgrade included?
If ibus had given me a pop up the first time it intercepted CTRL-space, I
would have been aware, that CTRL-space was intercepted by ibus. The pop-up
could even give me a checkbox to simply disable it, if I do not want to use
it.
It is pretty clear that I do not have the need for changing input methods.
This will be the case for many other people.
Why not use a shortcut that is not used by most Emacs users, and which
predates ibus by decades? Or: Why not leave the shortcut disabled by
default? People who need to shortcut is more likely to go searching for it.
It seems there are lots of solutions to the problem that will keep
everybody happy.
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